Geoffrey Chaucer - Gold Quotes

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But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Of smal coral aboute hire arm she bar
A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene,
And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,
On which ther was first write a crowned A,
And after Amor vincit omnia.

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If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust....

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For gold in phisik is a cordial,
Therefore he lovede gold in special.

Geoffrey Chaucer
For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.

Geoffrey Chaucer
For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
But all be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie, But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

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The seven bodies I'll describe anon: Sol, gold is, Luna's silver, as we see, Mars iron, and quicksilver's Mercury, Saturn is lead, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus copper, by my father's kin!

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